(Image credit: Ion Storm) Reinstall (Image credit: Future) This Reinstall feature was originally published in issue 422 of the PC Gamer magazine. To get the rest of our exclusive mag content, you can purchase or subscribe to PC Gamer via Magazines Direct . To hijack a robot I have to stay nearby for a non-trivial amount of time. When I want to hack a chickenwalker military bot right out of RoboCop, I sneak behind it while a timer counts down as it patrols, every stomp shaking my screen as I follow it—right into the open where guards might see me. The robot turns on the spot, stomp stomp stomp, facing me just as the final second ticks past. I’m in. Looking through its camera-feed Terminator vision the first thing I see is myself, crouching in the middle of a courtyard like an absolute doofus. (Image credit: Ion Storm) Then I see the guards and open fire, rockets ragdolling them into the sky.…